Quotes from Nick Mohammed

I worked out that you could have an interplay of comedy and theatre and achieve more than the sum of its parts.

I don't tend to read much comedy, but there's a fake advertisement section at the end of Derren Brown's book 'Pure Effect' which always makes me cry with laughter every time I come across it.

I've always liked the idea of writing a workplace sitcom that was set somewhere where the stakes were really huge and yet you would still have those normal, everyday office moments that everyone can associate with.

One Christmas Eve I was made to eat a thing the person who cooked it called 'caram-egg' - which was basically uncooked egg in the shape of a cowpat with the tiniest hint of caramel.

As a magician or anyone fascinated by magic, the Houdini story is a really impressive one.

A lot of the stuff I do is broad, physical, quite silly.

I like places that are shrouded in mystery.

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.

When I was very young, Michael Crawford was a real hero because I saw this guy who could do everything - make people laugh, act, do stunts.

I once dreamed that the word 'eight' was actually 'oat'.